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The tragic end of Book Depository

6 April 2023 3:00 pm

The sudden closure of UK-based Book Depository has sent a shiver through the Australian literary scene. As one of Australia’s most…

Ardern’s last speech to Parliament commits her to climate action

5 April 2023 7:40 pm

Remember when Jacinda Ardern said, rather tearfully, ‘I don’t have enough in the tank.’ A sniffle later, the former Prime…

Richard Dawkins committed the cardinal sin

3 April 2023 6:00 am

The West is a theocracy. Not a Christian theocracy – or even an Islamic one – but rather a theocracy…

15 minute cities: burning to the ground

29 March 2023 8:00 am

Are this century’s ideological peasants finally revolting? It certainly seems that way after residents set fire to road block ‘planters’ which…

Victoria needs Voltaire

27 March 2023 4:30 am

So modern and fabulous we think we are… But it was the French philosopher of the Enlightenment period, Voltaire, who…

Social media: radicalising the West into the climate cult?

24 March 2023 7:00 am

Facebook users are aware of the suffocating control the platform exerted over the Covid narrative. The Silicon Valley giant became…

Labor’s Net Zero dream left in the car park

22 March 2023 7:30 am

Nothing describes Net Zero better than Labor’s campaign ‘e-bus’ sitting dead on arrival in front of reporters after suffering a…

To win, the Liberals must destroy the climate cult

19 March 2023 5:30 pm

Scrolling through Instragram, I came across a likable North Shore member running for the New South Wales state election. He’s…

OnlyFans: the last stop for Western feminism

18 March 2023 11:45 am

Barely a day goes by without tabloid publications spruiking a ‘good news’ story about some poor, oppressed woman or D-grade…

CLARIFICATION – FLORADA

15 March 2023 11:59 am

On 14 February 2023, The Spectator Australia published an article entitled ‘Covid killed the Roses’ on our Flat White column…

Hopping off into Woke madness: Puma drops kangaroos

14 March 2023 3:02 pm

Sportswear giant Puma has gotten itself into a bungle. To polish its Woke credentials, the company decided to drop its…

Woke rail networks want to save the planet, but they can’t look after their stations

11 March 2023 6:00 am

I was born in Wahroonga. Attended school there. In the decades since, I have lived in and around the little…

Plibersek, stop handing public money to billionaires

2 March 2023 4:00 am

Mining giant and Fortescue Metal executive chairman Andrew Forrest said at a Sydney conference this week: ‘We are fat and…

iPhone’s ‘Clean Energy Charging’: the beginning of dystopia

28 February 2023 5:00 am

iPhone users raged on social media after they discovered why their devices have been a bit sluggish on the charging…

Peter Dutton: incapable of giving a straight answer on the Voice

27 February 2023 5:00 am

Blue-Ribbon Liberals desperately want Peter Dutton to succeed. They want him to stand up and emerge from the Turnbull-Morrison rubble…

Science: prostituting itself for the luvvies

24 February 2023 4:45 am

Hauling icebergs to Africa: could a bizarre plan to get drinking water actually work? It’s a headline so odd it…

China’s Covid response ‘a miracle in the history of human civilisation’

20 February 2023 4:19 pm

Someone is lying about Covid – we just need to work out who it is… The Chinese Communist Party held onto draconian…

Energy starvation: the West goes hungry to keep the lights on

19 February 2023 6:24 pm

Mainstream and government-based publications have been running concerning headlines in recent months regarding food insecurity in Western nations – including…

Fission vs fusion and the limits of utopian energy

13 February 2023 6:30 am

All operational nuclear power plants are based upon the breakthrough technology of nuclear fission. A controlled chain reaction is initiated…

The vegans will starve: it’s a bug-eat-bug world out there

8 February 2023 5:30 am

Clicking on the link to a recent Reader’s Digest story about common foods that secretly contain insects was a mistake. I could…

Slice and dice social justice: organs in exchange for liberty

6 February 2023 7:00 am

There are some headlines that make you wonder about the direction of our so-called ‘progressive’ civilisation. Not only are our…

#ChineseSpyBalloon

4 February 2023 5:51 pm

Communists make really poor neighbours. This week, in the spirit of raising international tensions for no good reason, the Chinese…

Jordan Peterson vs Klaus Schwab: who will ‘rule ze vrold’?

1 February 2023 3:53 pm

The best James Bond film plot in town was released yesterday when Canadian clinical psychologist Dr Jordan Peterson announced on Joe Rogan’s…

What (conservative) women want

29 January 2023 4:30 am

Something strange has been happening in conservative politics. The Liberal Party is being told that the only way it can…

Eventbrite cancels Dr Peter McCullough: ‘dangerous speech’ or the rise of truth?

27 January 2023 8:39 am

This morning, ticket platform Eventbrite sent out an email informing its customers that the hotly anticipated event, Dr Peter McCullough Covid-19…